“Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve. Somebody said dignity was the first to leave.
I went into the city, went into the town; Went into the land of the midnight sun.
Searchin’ high, searchin’ low, Searchin’ everywhere I know
Askin’ the cops wherever I go, Have you seen dignity?” (Dignity by Bob Dylan, 1991)
I thought of this song as I watched a video from a CCTV camera shown on Crime Watch recently. I watched with deep sadness as two young men – one with a cutlass and the other with a sawn-off shotgun, “held up” the owner of a small parlour.
